Fine Photographs

Date(s)

Thursday, February 12th, 2026

Auctions

Street Address

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010

Swann Auction Galleries Sale #2729

40.741171263679, -73.98499415

Fine Photographs

Event Times

12pm

Book Arts

The six shortlisted novels for the Booker Prize in their special bindings

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Printing Press That Aided Chilean Independence Goes on Show

Antique Bookcases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Rare Books

William Harvey's Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus

Books, Manuscripts, and Photographs from Royal Society of Medicine Library to Auction

'The New Wizard of Oz': Rare Book of the Week

Unpublished Rackham Santa Claus Mystery Solved

Auctions

Part of Michael Baggott's personal library

Book Collection of Silver and Antiques Expert Michael Baggott to Auction

Leonard Cohen Letter to Marianne Ihlen and Hendrix Signatures Lead RR Auction's 'Marvels of Modern Music' Sale

Jane Austen Letter, Middlemarch in Parts, Stowe Manuscript: Auction Preview

Photographs

Unidentified photographer, Hester Street, West from the Southwest Corner of Norfolk Street, New York City, ca. 1898.

New York Melting Pot Photographs Go On Display

Unrecorded Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Rare Photo of the Week

First Retrospective of Photographer Paddy Summerfield at the Bodleian

Book People

Parade Gardens, Bath, marks the 250th anniversary year of Jane Austen's birth

Are the Movie Adaptations of 'Pride and Prejudice' Ruining the Book: Part II

Williams College Librarian Anne Peale on Institutional Collecting and George Mason’s Constitution Draft

Orwell on Jura, Katherine Mansfield, and Haunted Libraries: December Books Roundup

Americana

Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea with inscription to Spencer Tracy

Hemingway Presentation Copy of 'The Old Man and the Sea' Inscribed to Spencer Tracy Sold for $83K

Bing Crosby 'White Christmas' Musical Arrangements and Scripts to Auction

Rufus King's Draft Constitution and Apple's Foundation Document to Auction

Visual Art

Charlie Mackesy, Your next step (estimate: £5,000-£7,000)

Original Works by Charlie Mackesy to Auction

Opening Bid of $10m for Frank Frazetta’s 'Conan the Conqueror (Berserker)' Cover Art

'A Charlie Brown Christmas' Production Art to Auction

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Exhibitions

Paper conservator Jen Snowden working on Francis Austen’s mathematics coursebook from the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth.

Manuscripts Relating to Jane Austen's Brothers on Display for First Time

The Huntington's 'Stories from the Library' Features Octavia E. Butler’s Notebooks and Charlotte Brontë’s Letters

Mary, Queen of Scots’ Last Letter to Go On Display